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Had you bought your car a few decades earlier from Maurice J. Sopp in Huntington Park, say Sept 26, '30, you might have saved $40.00! and been able to appreciate the beautiful architecture. A ++? Unfortunately, any trade-in offer for your newer ride might have been contingent upon their ability to contact Gene Roddenberry, Rod Serling or Harry Houdini (?) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics46/00057728.jpg http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics43/00056296.jpghttp://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=60631 Of course you could have tried out care other than Chevrolet. Heard Graham Ford In Downey has a nice selection, and the Hudson Dealers have a nice waiting rooms (and apparently at least 40 dealers in the LA area - over the years . . . see: http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung...alerships.html http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung...sAngelesCA.jpg http://www.google.com/ http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung...938_resize.jpghttp://www.google.com/http://www.google.com/ Harbor Hudson, in Wilmington on Anaheim? http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung...lmingtonCA.jpghttp://www.google.com/ Hudson & Essex in Hollywood, ??5430 Hollywood Blvd?? 1921? http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung/BoquaCA.jpghttp://www.google.com/ Moore Hudson, Riverside '53 http://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung...iversideCA.jpghttp://home.comcast.net/~sarahdyoung...eCA_resize.jpghttp://www.google.com/ http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2370/2...d1df0d32_b.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2241/2...25f7176f_b.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3255/2...0b6dc320_b.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2644/3...91e219fd_o.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos |
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(Some of these may be reprints) (Still looking for the Car Wash shot with "Pig N Whistle in background) July 58 Hollywood Freeway: http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/8f...3688bb47cc.jpg http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/96796/1...om-Los-Angeles http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/e2...3b7d008a92.jpg Muller on the scene: '52 Hollywood FWY (at least thats what its marked) http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/aa...6e2fa0c2f6.jpg 1st and Olive '51 Viertel's Tow Service http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/6e...c8295141c0.jpg 3rd and Alameda, '51 Viertel http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/ef...01e5b1e4cb.jpg I-10 and Boyle Ave overpass?? http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/a2...af3088d5d3.jpg Pasadena FWY, North of Orange Grove Ave '58 http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/6d...e2b3b3ac3f.jpg Ramona FWY (Now I-10) West of Herbert Ave. http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/71...e87c5ca568.jpg Normandy and Fountain, '51 http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/ea...ba2923782f.jpg http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/96796/1...om-Los-Angeles |
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google street view The other building I thought was interesting in the 'not a cornfield' area is just north and across the street from 1727 N. Spring Street (to refresh your memory 1727 is shown above...and circled in red below). The 'other' bldg. is pinpointed with the red A teardrop. http://imageshack.us/a/img52/3248/17...d1640nspri.jpg There is hardly a tree in this whole industrial area except in front of this attractive one story building. When I came across the building it seemed so different from the other buildings in the area....charming architecture and pleasant shade from the trees. http://imageshack.us/a/img163/6528/1...streetonns.jpg google street view http://imageshack.us/a/img713/6528/1...streetonns.jpg google street view below: This view also shows a garage entrance at the southern end of the building. http://imageshack.us/a/img232/6528/1...streetonns.jpg google street view ____ I revisited this charming building today (via google) and someone chopped down all the damn trees!! http://imageshack.us/a/img825/5165/1...gneighbor2.jpg google street view I half expected to see Gaylord_Wilshire standing there with a smirk and a chain-saw. http://imageshack.us/a/img535/8530/1...ighborat16.jpg google street view http://imageshack.us/a/img834/8530/1...ighborat16.jpg google street http://imageshack.us/a/img341/8530/1...ighborat16.jpg google street view ___ Looking south on N. Spring Street from Wilhardt Street before the trees were removed. http://imageshack.us/a/img833/9909/1...ighborwith.jpg google street view below: Another view down N. Spring St. from Wilhardt St. minus the trees. http://imageshack.us/a/img440/9909/1...ighborwith.jpg google tree view Obviously the trees were lost when new curbing and sidewalks were recently installed (a good thing)....but I wish they could have saved this small group of trees. Am I the only one that liked it better with the trees? (I already know your opinion G_W :)) ___ |
"On the subject of Builders Emporiums, I believe they had some stiff competition from National Lumber, although I do not recall ever visiting one or whether they were in that specific area. "
The competitors in SoCal were Builder's Emporium & Neiman-Reed's Lumber City. The 1st Builders Emporium was in Van Nuys on Sepulveda at Oxnard. The 1st Lumber City was in Van Nuys on Burbank at Fulton near Valley College. |
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My recollection from reading on other websites (mainly about Beverly Park) was that, although the derrick was long gone, it remained a producing well through the mid 70's. It was finally sealed as part of the Beverly Center project. Unfortunately I have been unable to find the site I read this on. Good info on Beverly Park: https://www.facebook.com/groups/41435512560/ |
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One supposes that if the power is cut to the traffic signal, you would stop anyway. But in the daylight, with the signal working and lit "green" could get confusing. Object/s on the ground between the two posts books and/or a jacket? Don't get caught "darting" on Rampart. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041065.jpglapl |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...1270/BHF-1.jpg [source: me] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...1270/BHF-2.jpg [source: me] I snuck around the back of the building and stood on tippy toes to point my camera through a partially open window above my head, just to see what the interior looks like. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...1270/BHF-3.jpg [source: me] |
Regarding the oil derrick at the Beverly Center. I could be dead wrong about this, but I seem to remember the thing being kind of wrapped inside of the parking entrance on the San Vicente side of the Beverly Center. I had the impression that it was still a functioning oil well at the time, but that was almost 30 years ago.
Oops, here's an update to the above. I just found this quote on Wikipedia regarding the oil wells: "The mall's unusual shape and lack of street frontage along San Vicente Blvd is due to its location on top of the Salt Lake Oil Field. The western portion of the mall property contains a cluster of oil wells, all operated by Plains Exploration & Production, in a drilling enclosure that is active to this date.[" |
In these aerials you can see how the Beverly Center was designed to accommodate the oil works on it's west side
along San Vicente Boulevard. http://imageshack.us/a/img838/9122/a...eroilworks.jpg google aerial http://imageshack.us/a/img718/8840/a...ycenteroil.jpg google aerial ___ Handsome_Stranger, thanks for posting your photos of the Beverly Hills Ford building. It was really cool to see the interior. |
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Oil field map: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...41541947_n.jpghttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=3&theater http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/ar.../29817.jpg?v=1 http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/ar.../29782.jpg?v=1 http://originaldialogue.blogspot.com...ain-sight.html Pico Boulevard: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2011/2...3ba2dc79_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com Beverly Hills: http://www.clui.org/sites/default/fi..._tour2_600.jpg http://www.google.com Regarding some little upstart company called . . . Honda on Pico Blvd. in '59: http://autoweek.com/storyimage/CW/20...-906119977.jpghttp://www.autoweek.com/ http://www.autoweek.com/article/2009...NEWS/906119977 http://www.motorhelmets.com/library/...ry-image-2.jpghttp://www.google.com |
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Regarding Honda's Pico presence, it is interesting (to me) that the company started with its motorized bicycle but did not officially introduce its first car, the Honda N600m to the US until 1970/71. http://www.examiner.com/article/hond...ry-celebration Equally curious, Honda has a replica of the Pico Building Facade, that probably looks nicer than the original ever did. Wonder if there is any kind of placard at the original site. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3514/3...c5833fa3_b.jpg http://www.flickr.com http://autoweek.com/storyimage/CW/20...7.jpg&maxW=630 "So, in June 1959, the company founded American Honda Motor Co. Inc. in a storefront building on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles with three employees: former sales manager-turned-president Kihachiro Kawashima and assistants Takayuki Kobayashi and Shozo Yamagishi. They shared an $80-a-month apartment in L.A. with one bed--two of them slept on the floor. (Imagine Jim Press and Bob Nardelli fighting for the covers in Auburn Hills, Mich.) In addition to the storefront, they all worked in a rented warehouse stacking crated motorcycles three high and wandering the West recruiting dealers. Their first selling season was a bust. They offered the 250-cc and 350-cc Dream and the 125-cc Benly motorcycles--all of which, when driven long distances at high speeds as we do here in the States, blew their head gaskets and fried their clutches. Rather than stonewall or say “they all do that,” Kawashima shipped the blown bikes back to Japan to find a fix. A better head gasket and a stronger clutch spring were the cures, and a reputation for customer care was established right off the bat." http://www.autoweek.com/article/2009...NEWS/906119977 |
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Postcard of a residence at St. James Park.
http://imageshack.us/a/img52/6435/aa...park1908pc.jpg ebay I was hoping someone might know what the structure is in the middle of the intersection. (G_W? It's probably a street marker like the ones I've posted below....but none of these markers are in the middle of the street. westmoreland heights at westmoreland blvd. http://imageshack.us/a/img137/3183/u...landblvdat.jpg google street view harvard blvd at washington blvd (I believe the light was added later but I'm not sure) http://imageshack.us/a/img525/3182/u...ardblvdgat.jpg google street view hobart at west adams heights http://imageshack.us/a/img818/7067/u...gtonblvdat.jpg google street view harvard blvd at washington blvd north side of street http://imageshack.us/a/img577/3182/u...ardblvdgat.jpg google street view I am amazed this one is still standing at all. ____ |
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http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4577/rampartgsv.jpgGoogleSV While these two shots do not appear to be from the same vantage point, indeed they are. The view is east on 3rd at Rampart Blvd. The vintage shot is a foreshortened view, which makes comparison here less than ideal...not to mention the $%#&# tree at right in the recent shot.... Once I get there with my chainsaw, the white steeple at right will appear in any newer Google Street View shots from Rampart in this direction.... Here it is almost unencumbered: http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1...partchurch.jpgGoogleSV The white steeple belongs to the Superet Light Center--which is not a convenience store or lamp shop but rather a church of a denomination called the Superet Atom Aura Science (your questions answered here). I am sure that we covered this building (at 2516 West 3rd) here before, but I had no luck searching for it. The large building at top center in the vintage shot is the old St. Vincent Hospital building, now replaced; the dark steeple to its right is that of St. Nicholas Cathedral, just recently completed (in 1950), and still on the southwest corner of Grand View and 3rd. Quote:
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postcard view is the base of the lamp below. St. James Park had quite distinctive and elaborate Victorian street fixtures. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CRLvvF5XS5.../sjphorses.jpg As for the Harvard/Washington metal lamps--some shots of West Adams Heights gatepost lamps show similar, apparently non-electric versions of the metalwork: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061812.jpgLAPL |
:previous: Thanks for the information G_W!
In that last photograph I like how the shingles 'swoop' over the arched doorway. I had no idea the Hobart marker had that metal work on top. |
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